Florida Is on Its Way to Banning — and Criminalizing — Alternative Meat

Party of small government my fucking ass. Also, isn't the free market allowed to produce any product and compete for consumer spending? Isn't that capitalism?

Small government means making it ILLEGAL to be Vegan or Vegetarian!

We'll, I guess that means lab-grown meat is showing promise! I look forward to seeing it in stores.

I'm so fucking sick of the Florida government. House insurance is astronomical, but they're worried about lab-grown meat, teachers saying gay, and books.

Man, for a party that talks about freedoms, they sure love taking them away. As long as their followers still have gun rights, fuck everything else.

Aaaahhh the political party of not wanting to interfere in people's lives.

Unless you eat meat from a source that might change an industry and cause a select few individuals to be slightly less rich

Unless you masturbate and waste gods seed

Unless you love the wrong person

Unless you want to vote for the wrong person

Unless you believe in the wrong or (gasp) no god at all!

Unless you're the wrong skin color, how dare you!

Unless you have the wrong genitals

Unless you have the wrong wrong genitals

Unless...

Politics is bout ideology, value and belief. But here, it's about making decisions by dogmatism and cult. This is a whole different level.

Alabama also passed a bill to ban the sale and manufacturing of it, making it a Class C felony.

What in the fuck is going on in these guys heads. I get being beholden to the cattle industry but this shit is beyond that

So capitalism is bad and the government can tell me what I can and can’t buy… according to Florida legislators? Sure sounds like the republican went woke.

So far Florida seems to be a good shooter when it comes to its own foot. Make Diznee illegal, abortion illegal, abortion pill, tofu meat. What's next? Smoothies?

Let's make an allegory to porn and prostitution that George Carlin made some years back... Selling is legal, fucking is legal, do why can't selling fucking also be legal?

Banana is legal, orange is legal, so why can't a smoothie be legal? The answer is "Florida!"

Florida is taking away the freedom of any person to eat whatever they want? Is anyone surprised?

I wanna get one of those cigarette boats and smuggle abortion pills and alternative meat into Florida and trans people out.

It'll be black with a red racing stripe and a spoiler like the A Team van and I'll name it the Baracus.

Always with the lame anecdotal argument that sounds like it came from a drunk idiot.

Florida state Rep. Tyler Sirois, the Republican who introduced a similar bill, HB 1071, told Politico that his major motivation is protecting the cattle industry. “Farming and cattle are incredibly important industries to Florida,” Sirois stated, adding, "So I think this is a very relevant discussion for our state to have.”

I don't agree with him on the policy, but I'll give him this: that's more honest than most people advocating for creating protectionist barriers to protect incumbent food producers that I've seen.

Usually there's something about how it's potentially deadly or maybe waving around "concerns" about whether there'd be food security in a global famine or something.

I love how humans try their hardest to cut down on the amount of destruction they cause only for other humans to villainize and tear them down at every turn.

But why? What do they have to ban ethically-sourced meat?

Medicine is too woke for Florida. So is meat, so are books.

Anyone have any predictions?

I feel like seat belts are going to be too woke soon for Florida.

Driving licenses altogether might be too woke.

Salads? Too woke for Florida

This is great! This'll lower prices for everyone else.

Alternative meat sounds like a slang term for a dildo.

It's good to see Florida really taking the lead on tackling the issues that matter.

I don't care what Rick Desantis says. It's my right as an American to enjoy Soylent Green.

I've been watching the tech to make actual meat from cell lines emerge with some optimism- it promises to make it possible for us to have meat in our diets without all the greenhouse gases and feedlots and the like- but it also threatens to consolidate the protein industry into even fewer corporate hands if it's not well-regulated.

The meat industry is honestly pretty awful (environmentally, politically, ethically, etc.) and I find myself rooting for the plucky young frankenmonsters that might come along and knock them down even though I'm pretty sure they'll be worse if they're not well regulated from the start.

Not long until they ban Linux!

They need to lose in court again, I guess. Sorry taxpayers, that's 20 million right off the top.

I like meat too, but this is silly. Just had roast chicken yesterday. I also have a freezer with two door shelves lined with tubes of Impossible Sausage. It's a pretty damn good "sausage", and without those hard/random bits of gristle you'll encounter with the real thing. Think there's some Quorn chicken nuggets in there too. Just buy as you like.

And soy was a lovely mitigator for menopausal hot flashes. Dosed myself with soy on the daily for those weeks, no flashes (awful random surges of heat, head to toes, such that you sweat into your hair, behind your knees, awful.) Miss a day, hot flashes. Although, when you think on it, this fits with Florida, really. Fuck women's health, amiright?

So, it's a race to heart disease against the environmental clock that's working hard to turn the whole state into Shatlantis, part duh?

I have no idea what is going on. Is the article biased and not telling us something we should know about the reasoning behind these bills? Are these politicians taking payment from "big-meat"?

Cool…😶